The Sioux Falls city council will get a presentation from a city attorney about House Bill 1172 (no supporting documents exist yet) on Tuesday at the 4 PM informational meeting.
According to this BILL it has to do with public input. I found this paragraph in the bill;
The chair of the public body shall reserve at every official meeting by the public body a period for public comment, limited at the chair’s discretion, but not so limited as to provide for no public comment.
In other words, as I read this, if the city council wants to change local ordinance about public input, they have some hurdles with State Law. It seems to me that they may be able to change the time limit or move the public input to the back of the meeting, but they CANNOT get rid of it. I say leave it as is and if someone is being disruptive, gavel them and have them move on their merry way.
UPDATE: It looks as though this may be beneficial to public input by allowing it at ALL public meetings (like the informational). We will find out more on Tuesday. The the State Law goes into place July 1st.
There will be also presentations on alcohol ordinances and public safety studies.
NO regular meeting will be held on Tuesday.